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At the edge of the Amazon, a remote tribe suffers a plague of rabies spread by desperate vampire bats. It sounds like the plot from a bad B-movie, but the reality is far more grim: More than 500 people have been infected and at least four children have died.

It’s not the result of secret government experiments or a scientist gone mad. Instead, the attacks have been attributed to deforestation.

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